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| ...It's with optimal conditions, on your best body of water. Today, Sept 30 2004. Which spot you gonna run to and fish? Mine's a rock bar the size of a MacDonald's parking lot, 70' to the W, 120' to the N, 45' to the E and S. Top of the bar is totally exposed (lots of nesting birds etc), the backside finger is totally 'hitable' with the outboard, tapers irregularly out into 8, 12, 14 feet and breaks into 22 feet. Cabbage all along the W side, good weed still out in 14 feet. DEscribe yours! You get 60 minutes total to run to it and fish it. |
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| Hehehe...better off behind the desk I guess. |
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Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | I'll play, The fish in my area have been hanging awfully shallow lately, so....
I have a 3-4' shoreline sand flat that breaks into about 20' of water. This breakline runs about a mile. The fish travel along this flat and break like crazy, but have very few features to hold them, except.... I would spend my sixty minutes working a small acre or two patch of shallow cabbage on this otherwise featureless flat in front of the breakline. The 2-4' of weeds are a half a cast away from twenty foot of water. It seems like nearly every fish that travels this breakline or flat take some time to cruise this cabbage. It is a classic example in my mind of what Dick P is talking about in his book when he discusses holding pens.
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Location: New Baden IL | Mine would be a big flat with milfoil all over the top of it. It tops out at about 4' with a quick break down to about 22'. The top of the flat is usually covered with shad that are on a suicide mission, and it's not uncommon to hear one get smacked down every 10-15 minutes. I'd be throwing a grey colored Shumway Flasher and holding on tight!
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Mine is a rock island on Pelican that has a TON of great structure, but has two 'spots on the spot' that give up big fish pretty regular. The wind is right, the skies are right, and the Muskies will be going before the front moves through. I would start on the SW side, south of the island, and work the rock pile on the point off the landing with a Castor or a Wabull. I would work down the edge all the way around the island paying very close attention to the lip that extends off the NW corner and the 18' breakline extending from the HUGE rock on the edge there. Down the face of the island, moving along the round rock structure to the SPOT!!! Norm knows where that is. There's a fish there in the fall that would stop an average muskie man dead in his tracks, and has embarrassed me more than one time. Maybe this October she falls!
Now if I was on the Goon.... |
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Posts: 1996
Location: Pelican Lake/Three Lakes Chain | Steve,
You just gave me chills. Hope she's back this fall.....or do you already have inside information?  |
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Location: Holly, MI | With only 60 minutes I'd troll the wall. There is a steel breakwall on the Detroit River that holds big fish late in the fall. It might be early yet and I will probably wait until late October. Anyway, the ski's corrall the bait fish up against the steel breakwall and it can be trolled with the tip of your rod only a foot off the wall in about 20 fow. Makes for a small target and easy to put a lure in front of the fish.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Norm,
She's THEEEEEEERE now! She likes that weird colored castor, too. |
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| lobi, that wall's produced eyes in the 11# range for us. Seen shad in there in April boiling up good, no reason why a ski wouldn't visit. Talk about a tackle eater bottom on the jigs.... |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | I have a single rock, out in the middle of no-where, that barely sticks out of the water with a nice cabbage patch around it, and a verticle rock drop off from 5-6' on top to 17'. Shamu the killer whale lives there! She comes up out of the deep water following jerkbaits. A million boats go by it, but next to no one fishes it. I will even tell you where it is........ the Winnepeg River!
Edited by Steve Van Lieshout 10/1/2004 11:46 AM
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